RG Kar impasse: Agitating junior doctor's delegation arrives in Kalighat to meet West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
A delegation of junior doctors arrived in south Kolkata's Kalighat area on Saturday evening to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
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RG Kar: Junior doctors' dharna outside Swasthya Bhavan enters fourth day as stalemate continues
Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal junior doctors' sit-in protests outside state Health and Family Welfare headquarters- Swasthya Bhavan- entered the fourth day on Friday after the efforts to hold a discussion between the protesters and the government on the RG Kar rape-murder incident failed last evening.
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